When we discuss the infrastructural demands of the artificial intelligence boom, the conversation almost immediately defaults to the electrical grid. We talk in gigawatts and megawatt-hours. But behind every headline about AI’s power hunger lies an equally critical, yet vastly under-discussed, resource challenge: water.

At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit, moderator Kathleen Koch sat down…
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There is a design contradiction at the center of how high-reasoning AI tools work, and it is worth naming precisely.The promise is leverage: brief, high-intent sessions. You bring the question, the tool brings the synthesis, and you leave with more than you arrived with. That is the value proposition.Here is what often happens instead. You arrive with a specific request.
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I have been thinking a lot about the resilience of this website. Over time, I have stopped linking to live copies of resources because they disappear. I have been blogging for over 20 years and there are still people looking at posts I did early on where every resource I linked to has succumbed to the…
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Letitia Haynes-Frasier, director of legal operations at Cox Media Groupand winner oftheMonica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award,discusses why legal tech integration and transparency between clients and outside counsel are vital in the AI era.
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Theresa Spartichino, director of practice technology at Ropes & Gray and winner of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award, talks about the need for orchestration platforms that can manage end-to-end workflows up to the “last mile.
Continue Reading Ropes & Gray's Director of Practice Tech: Firms Struggle With Operationalizing ‘Good Ideas at Scale'

Katherine Charonko, partner at Bailey & Glasser, LLP, and winner of Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award discusses how legal technology needs to better align with the specific needs of the practice of law.
Continue Reading Bailey & Glasser Partner: Biggest Innovation Barrier is ‘Speed at Which the Legal Industry Changes'

Anastasia Boyko joins us this week for a wide-angle conversation about AI adoption, leadership, and the uncomfortable truth behind “we are watching what peer firms do.” A Yale-trained tax lawyer with experience spanning Axiom, legal education, and innovation leadership, Boyko argues that precedent-driven instincts are turning into a liability when the underlying rules of the market are shifting in real…
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In every deposition, client call or witness prep session, there is an inherent tension. The more focused attorneys are on listening, the less bandwidth they have to simultaneously verify what is being said against the record. Conversely, the more they are mentally cross-referencing documents, the less present they are in what is being said. August, […]
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In our latest Inside View podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill sits down on our virtual sofa with Sam Dixon, a partner and UK chief innovation officer at Womble Bond Dickinson, responsible for innovation strategy.Dixon was previously an associate at Womble Bond Dickinson before he became head of innovation in 2021, and chief innovation officer in 2024.In…
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThat philosophy of reduction is exactly what GenAI can offer trial lawyers, and here’s why that matters. Indeed, I recently talked about how slow and cumbersome the process was, particularly in light of how people learn and digest…
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